GREAT HANWOOD, Shropshire

"GREAT HANWOOD, a parish in the hundred of Ford,
county Salop, 4 miles S.W. of Shrewsbury. It is a station on the Shrewsbury
and Welshpool section of the London and North-Western railway. The parish
is situated near the Rhe, a branch of the river Severn, within the liberty
of the borough of Shrewsbury. The parish is of small extent, and chiefly
arable. Here is a large flourmill. The living is a rectory* in the diocese
of Hereford, value £221. The church is a small brick edifice, built at the
beginning of the 18th century.